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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Just One Word: Migrate
Ware2Go’s CEO Steve Denton explores how 2020 changed the way businesses operate from the inside out. He shares experience from the field and how leaders can adapt to stay ahead of quickly-changing social and structural changes in business.
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Expert Insights: 3 Tips to Prepare Your Warehouse for Peak
Ware2Go's Manager of Supply Chain Execution, Kelton Kosik, shares 3 tips to help merchants set their warehouse partners up for success during peak season to ensure maximum on-time delivery rates. This article was originally published on Supply Chain and Demand Executive.
— 6 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Expert Insights: Digitizing Your Procurement Specialist
A Procurement Specialist is a role traditionally reserved for enterprises, but Ware2Go's Director of Strategy, Samantha Smith, outlines how businesses of all sizes can use machine learning and AI to analyze their supply chain and implement best-in-class procurement and inventory management functions.
— 11 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Tips for Effectively Managing Seasonal Inventory
Long before the winter holidays arrive, seasonal suppliers are already prepping their supply chains to handle the uptick in demand. But without a warehousing and fulfillment strategy that is tailored to fit seasonal requirements, companies lose out on significant portions of their revenue due to year-round storage and inventory management costs. With this in mind, how does on-demand warehousing and fulfillment enable seasonal suppliers to avoid unnecessary expenses while still capitalizing on their peak season?
— 7 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Change and Cheese
Ware2Go’s CEO Steve Denton explores how the Coronavirus pandemic not only accelerated ecommerce sales but expanded the types of products consumers expected to have shipped to their homes. These changes mean that traditional retailers and ecommerce merchants alike will need to enhance both in-store and online shopping experiences while building a flexible supply chain to support evolving sales strategies.
— 6 min read
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Case studies Demand & Inventory Planning
How O2 Leveraged Flexible Fulfillment to Grow Their Business in a Volatile Market
O2 was founded in 2014 by CrossFit trainer Dave Colina and Dr. Dan Kim, who were both committed to bringing a healthy and effective recovery drink to the market that omitted the extra sugar and artificial flavoring found in most recovery drinks. After discovering some research that touted the profound effects of ingested oxygen on the liver’s ability to process toxins, they created a unique formula of electrolytes, natural caffeine, and added oxygen that they were confident would help athletes recover faster and work out harder the next time they hit the gym.
— 7 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Flexible Partnerships Empower Creative Solutions
Like many merchants, O2 pivoted quickly in response to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ll examine how their unique community-first response to the pandemic and flexible end-to-end supply chain grew their business by five fold in a time when many businesses struggled to stay afloat.
— 7 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
From Sales Tax to Inventory Tax - The Complete Guide for eCommerce Businesses
The nuances of sales and inventory tax may not be top of mind for many merchants, but the impacts of factors such as where inventory is stored and for how long as well as state-by-state economic nexus can make a significant difference when tax season rolls around. We’ve put together a high-level overview of some of these important considerations for merchants to keep in mind as they expand their sales channels and their fulfillment network.
— 8 min read
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Articles Demand & Inventory Planning
Could Walmart and Target Closing on Thanksgiving Open a Door for SMB’s?
Walmart, followed closely by Target, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Best Buy and Kohl’s, announced that their stores would be closed on Thanksgiving this year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While none of the retailers have announced detailed plans for Black Friday, most have outlined plans to extend holiday shopping deals and enhance online ordering and curbside pick-up options. All of these changes beg the question, what will the historic holiday shopping day look like this year?
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